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Homeland Security Department's conference on cybersecurity

Cybersecurity conference begins
The Hill (blog)
By Brendan Sasso - 08/08/11 11:08 AM ET The Homeland Security Department's seventh annual conference on cybersecurity began on Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. The event is hosted by the Homeland Security agency in charge of responding to cyber-attacks on ...

CPUC Adopts Cyber Security Measures for Smart Meters
EnergyBoom
By Jeanne Roberts on August 8, 2011 California, a national leader in renewable energy technologies like solar, wind and geothermal, is once again leading the pack with standards designed to protect renewable energy consumers using “Smart Meters” from ...

Analysis: Beyond debt woes, a wider crisis of globalization?
Reuters
"Given the increased number of stakeholders on any issue -- climate change, the global financial system, cyber security -- it is unclear how traditional nation states can lead on any issue, let alone build consensus globally," she said. ...

Don't Panic Over Looming Cybersecurity Threats
Forbes (blog)
By ADAM THIERER Panic is in the air — at least, that is, the air surrounding the debate over cybersecurity. It has become virtually impossible to read an article about cybersecurity policy, or sit through any congressional hearing on the issue, ...

Cybersecurity: past, present and future
ZDNet Australia
By Stilgherrian, ZDNet.com.au on August 8th, 2011 (15 hours ago) Nobody's safe as Stilgherrian turns his laser focus onto Australia's IT industry in a weekly podcast. "An insider who's gone bad can do more damage to your network than almost any hacker ...

Ex-intel chief: U.S. cyber-vulnerable
UPI.com
McConnell's remarks came after California-based cybersecurity company McAfee reported there were at least 70 victims of hacking -- the majority in the United States -- that took place over at least five years and was done by a state actor. ...

Howard Schmidt, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator
C-SPAN
This week, The Communicators begins a four-part series on US cybersecurity. In this first installment, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt discusses the Obama Administration's effort to reduce cyber threats and to protect the US ...

Bolster national cyber defense
Charleston Post Courier
Michael Dempsey, tapped to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently told the Senate that he expects cyber security to be a defining issue of his tenure. The general's comments should focus timely attention on a major problem area in ...

Government contractors prepare for a rainy day
Washington Post
Many contactors have already begun responding by buying or selling businesses or reshaping their enterprises to focus on areas likely to grow, such as cybersecurity and cloud computing. Others are looking to move into commercial markets and outside the ...

How to Fight Against Cyber Attacks
Big Think
When the American cybersecurity company McAfee announced it had traced a series of cyber attacks against corporations and governments to China's mainland, the specter of cyber warfare drew still closer after independent attacks from hacker-activist ..

Hackers Say They Obtained US Police Information
Latin American Herald Tribune
The six-page document, prepared by the National Cybersecurity Communications and Integration Center, or NCCIC, recommended at the time that given the expertise of cyber-pirates, the authorities should “adjust monitoring of both internal and external ...

Upcoming ARC Events for Business & IT Executives
ARC Advisory Group
In addition, dedicated workshops will focus on the specific issues surrounding cyber security and functional safety, process safety, energy efficiency, and anti-counterfeiting in the process and hybrid industries. The Cyber Security and Functional ...

Govt wants to monitor Facebook, Twitter
Times of India... said in written reply to a question on Friday in the Rajya Sabha that DoT has received a letter from MHA to ensure monitoring of social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter in order to "strengthen cyber security paraphernalia". ...

Top civil servant to face grilling over Huawei job
TechEye
Former government security expert John Suffolk is about to face a grilling by spy chiefs over his appointment as head of cyber security for Chinese firm Huawei. Suffolk is apparently due to meet with Cabinet Office officials to discuss concerns over ...

Stopping threats like Operation Shady RAT
GigaOm
7, 2011, 9:00am PT 1 Comment Earlier this week, McAfee published information about a new cyber security threat it dubbed “Operation Shady RAT”. Operation Shady RAT, and others like it that have emerged over the past months, represent a new kind of ...

Intel's McAfee product leverages old chip features
CIOL
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Intel's first cyber-security product co-developed with its McAfee unit will take advantage of features already built into its processors and will likely be available as an extra service to customers. Renee James, head of Intel's ...

choc-a-block with security breaches
The Australian
But as well as imaginary rock bands that Defrag just made up, we're also not one for actual hyperbole, which is why you will know how serious it is when we tell you that the time to panic about cyber security is now. And you should probably continue to ...

Anonymous are script kiddies, says DHS
FierceGovernmentIT
Likely targets include the federal government and critical infrastructure sectors, "particularly in response to publicized events relating to civil liberties, cyber security, or allegations of censorship (online or otherwise)."

Supporting innovation and growth in the IT industry
The Hill (blog)
Recently, as our membership gathered in Washington, DC for our annual conference, we brought particular focus to two innovation-intensive, high growth areas within the broader technology discussion: health IT and cybersecurity. ...

Data and Inference: They'll Drink Our Milkshakes
Huffington Post (blog)
The work of a team at Carnegie Mellon presented yesterday at the annual cybersecurity conference Blackhat in Las Vegas unveiled the modern day parallel to the early oil industry in the United States with a talk on facial recognition technology and its ...

Panetta Invokes Pearl Harbor While Anonymous Calls for Revolution
Nextgov
These are daily occurrences," James A. Lewis, a cybersecurity specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies told a House committee in May. Still, Panetta seems very worried about the future threat. At his June Senate confirmation ...

Risk managers, IT staff need to work together
Business Insurance
based trade association Internet Security Alliance, said, “There has been obviously an effort to call attention to the gap (between risk and IT managers) and to advocate for a more enterprise wide risk management approach to cyber security, ...

Cyber Security Conference 2011 | Financial Services
By admin
In the break out session, Mark will discuss some of the potential security problems that inter-disciplinary research on cyber security confronts. Participants will be encouraged to discuss the future of cybersecurity and the problems of ...
Financial Services

Black Hat Organizer Touts Value of Publicizing Cyber-Security...
By cybermaryland
Organizations and international governments are now more aware of the necessity of cyber-securityand are exerting a more concerted effort to protect core Internet infrastructure, Black Hat founder and director Jeff Moss said as he welcomed ... Touts Value of Publicizing Cyber-Security Researchhttp://wp.me/pP73x-o5 0 minutes ago; RT @FedNewsRadio: Hacker conference features 'Meet the Federal Agent': Federal agencies have been been recruiting cybersecurity ex... ht . ...
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